live from moscow this is r t could have you with the top stories now this hour and historic day for palestine which is achieved its full first membership to a u.n. agency of recognition comes at a price with unesco losing nearly a quarter of its funding which the u.s. cut in response. back syria's president claims the protests campaign against his regime is being funded from abroad in the west not to get involved in the head of nato has ruled out imposing a no fly zone over syria which some demonstrators in the country have been calling for. the clash of the russian tycoon two of the world's wealthiest men remember the

movie jim. take their place in the street to a london court and spare no money on the fight results he accuses every move richer robbing him of five and a half billion dollars and wants it back. well as u.s. troops prepare to withdraw from iraq in december they leave behind a campaign that's cost the american taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars when next we talk to and released expert who says the u.s. is wasting time and money trying to build democracy in the region that's our special interview next here on. i. we're sitting down with peter van buren a state department foreign service officer who a few years ago had it anyway racked the reconstruction team then came back home and wrote a book titled we meant well how i helped lose the battle for the hearts and minds of the iraqi people and now he says the state department don't seem fired because

of the book what what's in the book that they don't like so much stuff i'm sure when you throw pies that clowns they sometimes get angry state department is a lot like the mafia you don't talk about the family outside the family and the state department was i think bothered by the fact that i told the true story of what happened in iraq which contradicts what they've been putting out through the media for almost eight years not tell me a little bit more about the projects that you were involved in as part of this nation building a team that in the sponsored by the united states why do you think those projects failed around two thousand and seven number of state department people were sent to iraq to spend a lot of money to rebuild the country and hopefully create a nation that was going to be our ally and friend and a happy spot in the middle east if you can work out that way. instead what happened was that we were sent over there with almost unlimited funds but no vision we had

lots of time and lots of people but no one in charge we lacked many things including adult supervision so instead of the long term coordinated efforts that real development work requires we got short term efforts that were thrown together not guided by any broader philosophy and almost were required to fail the very first thing that happened to me was i was presented by my team mates with a fraudulent receipt to sign they had over spent three thousand dollars on snacks for a conference and wanted me to sign off on a produce a receipt for printing to make it all right i then tried to talk me into spending twenty five thousand dollars to buy a few sheep to give away to a few widows and that was are going to be our contribution to democracy in the war effort the more i look the pride it was as close to we were going to buy some sheep from a guy who was going to give them to his relatives who were going to raise them and put the rest in his pocket you could buy a toyota for what we were going to pay for sheep in iraq. the problem was that

these were not isolated incidents what i thought might have been just a really bad first day at work turned out to be evocative of the entire year our people so there was like a systematic squandering of resources there absolutely the squandering of resources that occurred at her small levels of thousand dollars a couple of thousand dollars here and there and zoomed all the way up into hundreds of millions of dollars that were spent on hospitals that never opened or prisons that never took any prisoners in the united states lacked a plan constantly being forced into short term solutions we were principally being asked to produce publicity stills and have something ready by next thursday for the photographers to show up c.n.n. is coming over the weekend better get something ready none of these things were part of the long term the slowed work of development that really is necessary if you're serious about rebuilding a country i want to read something to him we serious news i write the government

launched stocks of raise the alarm about billions of dollars of war zone waste and fraud are falling silent or are missing in action this news i. am is actually about the commission on wartime contracting and the charter that they were working under it has expired and has not been renewed and i'm just going to tell our viewers that this commission on wartime contracting claimed waste and fraud may have siphoned off up to sixty billion dollars from contracts in iraq and afghanistan and now this watch that could be out of business are you surprised who might be interested in it i'm actually ashamed that the commission on wartime contracting is going out of business and there's actually more to it than even the story that you just shared with your viewers first of all the state department has attempted to exempt itself from the scrutiny of the committee but you refer to the state department has claimed that it was not part of wartime contracting that it was involved in the

plan was. and therefore not controlled by that organization and they didn't want them to peek into what the state department was doing even worse the committee as it's dissolved has sealed all of its records and nor one will be allowed to see any of the results of its work except what's already been published until two thousand and thirty one so the things that the committee on wartime contracting uncovered the incredible amounts of waste fraud and mismanagement that they documented in the limited public documents that they do produce all of that is being swept away i don't know how old i'm going to be in two thousand and thirty one point to be a lot older than i am now but it's shameful shameful that we would not be able to see that information why aren't they allowed to publish that before we have the issue version is that there may be classified information in some of their reports that needs to remain undercover for that long i think most intelligent people realize that the reporting from the committee is so horrific it needs to be put

away to avoid embarrassing the government even further the u.s. government says we brought freedom and democracy to iraq and doesn't matter on what grounds will end if they're true or fall if they prove to be thoughtless but. anyways we got rid of a terrible man in power and we are building a democratic society there and that's the argument you were out there in the field what is the reality on the ground as you saw it crystal i don't think you can dismiss so casually because that set america to war in iraq we entered the iraq war under the guise of looking for weapons of mass destruction when we didn't find any as if there ever worry we then changed it to the new medium which is all we got rid of saddam he was a terrible man and brought freedom to iraq. saddam was not a nice guy i'm not here to defend you no one could possibly defend his actions however. we killed over one hundred thousand iraqi citizens some of them were

killed or wrecked we by the united states some of them were killed in the sectarian violence that we set loose in the aftermath of our invasion of iraq today remains in the bottom percentages of any statistic the u.n. cares to count access to water access to medical care access to education iraq is not a place that represents the investment of sixty three billion dollars in reconstruction funds iraqis had a number of elections but it doesn't have a democracy press reports are constantly reporting secret prisons militias targeted killings government killing soldiers people in military uniforms committing assassinations bombs going off none of those things are indicative of a democracy i think if that's what freedom represents most iraqis are not very comfortable with it and i think the united states failed in its efforts to bring freedom to iraq there's one thing that very few enlarging can admit and that is

that is that he's. actually there talking about whether or not it was immoral to invade iraq a but not quote about it defeat and what were you writing in this book it's like the raw material of failure do you really see it such as a defeat absolutely i actually title the title the book actually includes the catchphrase i helped lose this war and i accept my responsibility for not doing better than i should have and that i'm hearing most americans really going to stand by their government continue spending so much money in iraq they were told about the withdrawals by next year and now they hear that washington is maneuvering to stay there beyond that deadline what's your feeling why it is washington want to stay in iraq who benefits from it i myself i'm not sure why the united states has spent and continues to spend so much money in iraq i think one of the old sayings when you're in a hole the first thing you do is stop digging does apply. united states has said

but i don't want benefits from it so one does not need iraqi people they made it clear that they don't you know they but they but do they have a say when their government gets all of that money from diggle i think it's actually you know i don't think any of the money is going to the iraqi people i think a lot of the money their government is going to government leaders i think a lot of the money just disappears no one knows where billions of dollars actually physically actually went however it is interesting to note that iraq is planning to buy a lot of weapons from the united states and iraq is hoping to buy a number of f. sixteen s they already have bought and will continue to buy and one change from us all of these are very expensive toys and more importantly come with very long tails each of these tanks requires maintenance requires spare parts requires extra equipment and requires trainers and mechanics it's not like buying a car where you live at the state department pushes those contracts oh i know for a fact that we do it's one of the duties of the state department is to help sell

american products overseas and we work very closely in a number of countries around the world with the military in order to sell american weapons that's not a secret to be correct in any way whatsoever foreign military sales represent a significant duty of the military in conjunction with the state or overseas what is difficult about iraq is that this is a country that doesn't seem in a position from afford these type of things iraq is a country where people don't have access to water don't have access to medical care don't have access to electricity and instead of spending on those things their government is buying weapons and indebting itself to the united states for years to come something seems wrong there now i understand why and why the state department wants to fight that thank you very much for that senator thank you very much.

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today plenty. top stories this historic day for palestine which has achieved its first full membership to u.n. agency recognition comes at a price losing nearly a quarter of its funding which the u.s. cut in response. before impact syria's president claims the protest campaign against his regime is being funded from abroad and warns the west not to get involved and the head of nato has ruled out imposing a no fly zone over syria which sometimes traitors in the country have been calling for. clash of the russian tycoons two of the world's wealthiest men roman abramovich. take their bitter dispute to a london court and spare no money on the fight for the cusack a move richard robbing him of five and

a half million dollars and wanted back. to bring you up to date for the moment i'll be back with more news in fifteen minutes and on the meantime to me tree is here with an update on the latest sports. thanks for joining us first let's take a quick look at what's making headlines around the world. the top eight teams of the russian primally have been determined what's next for those who did well during the longest of a season and those who didn't. you track same story formula one champion sebastian. to a victory i feel no girl enduring grand prix living from start to finish in new delhi. and final countdown we catch up with russian top ten tennis star verisign ira one who shares her views on next weekend's davis cup decider with

first time as the czech republic. so with only one game week to play russia's longest football season in history is now on the verge of entering its second phase a competition where the top aides will continue their pursuit of silverware while the bottom half to fight for their places in next year's premier league foremost. spot on the commodities together with the recent champions zelig and rubin will be added by bush is a good one and to compound luckily of the first trait this group will determine not only the winners of the yeah but also all the european cups with disciplines for russia two champions league and three europa league sports are up for grabs their teams will come in the way places on the points of st your first part of the season will carry over. the same system will be applied to the relegation group competition the only difference is that the likes of the direst of terror and other

rock bottom squads will struggle for the right to stay in russia's top football division at the end of the least and long. two teams to go down automatically the two sides above them will have to fight it out with the third and fourth placed teams of division two. but the english game now we're talking and have joined chelsea and castle in third place in the premier league that's after spurs to london rivals queens park rangers on sunday a brace from gareth bale and precise strike from a rough part sailed the gave them job for food did reply for rangers but it was the home side who dominated that's why the hart lane. man now able to boast third record of six wins from the seven games action continues late on monday with newcastle aiming to take control of that position from the neckties away to make table stoke remember newcastle and leaders make the city their only unbeaten side

so far this season. let's move to formula one the man already crowned champion this season sebastian vettel winning the inaugural indian grand prix in new delhi prior to the race there was a minute's silence tell him no to. charlie who died in a crash last week in malaysia the action itself now where who started from power gradually increase his advantage over the traces back early on and never look back the german eventually finishing four point eight seconds ahead of mclaren just a button for hours for another alonso was a distant third almost twenty five seconds behind the winner but red bull. mark webber was fourth after the race. took the time to remember to mitchell and dan wheldon indy car star tragically died before the tail end. on the one hand i'm very very happy it's the first grand prix in india and i'm very

proud to be the first winner and i think we can be as a team but on the other hand looking back at last weekend we lost two of our mates . yeah i didn't know them well then but it was pretty it was a b.p. it was a big name in motor sport i got to know this year marco seaman shelly and obviously our thoughts are with them. staying in the world avengers tony stewart has one nascar stands fast relief five hundred race in america's virginia it in take long for the first place to come out a couple of cars after making contact on the eight and collected this movie goes on the race is final restart with three laps to go past defending champion jimmie johnson the outside to take over the leaves with the checkered flag inside johnson part just to put the eventual winner was able to finish first this victory putting stood in second place eight points behind current leader carl edwards with three

races to go in the chase for the sprint cup championship. you know today was a fight for sure when you want to restart with the the obstacles that we were came i mean that's what makes you win races like this was special. particularly one has won the end of season doubletake championships in a sun both following a three set fixture over victoria. twenty one year old czech peter that edging open a seven five but twenty two year old the russian opponent stormed back in the second to take a six four and to force a decider the third set there was to belong to wimbledon champ wrapping up torment six preschool i would also to run through it and this isn't a career high number two in the world. so clinton will now lead the czech republic team in their third cup final against the russian next with kind of an arrow of finding out first hand in istanbul what

put of a can do on the court as sure lost to the wimbledon champion payne straight sets in the group stages caught up with the russian head of moscow's massive showdown. when it comes to the fed cup final. some emotions they're special and you can never experience that when you play individual competition and definitely that then emotion will bring a lot of determination a lot of desire hopefully we can create you know great competition is very strong and very consistent they have a lot of good players they are not only good in singles but they are also good in doubles so it's going to be yeah it's going to be tough challenge but we're excited about it and we've got a lot of great players and we can easily form two first teams or maybe even three teams and it is great because we got a lot of choices at the same time you know sometimes it's tough because some

players get injured and sometimes we try to find the perfect combination between singles and doubles and trying to. you know the best team sometimes it's not easy because we have so many. people and we want everyone to play for the team but they're only spots for for. the matter what i think the level of our team is very strong going to always support each other and we're always going to do well. so well i think people look at my season and i think they have the. wrong perception of it because. i've reached two grand slam finals last year is here it was a very consistent year for me in. that i lost in the grand slams they. played really well throughout the season i didn't really have bad matches throughout the

whole season i didn't lose the first round or second round i've been playing deep into the tournament so i had a very consistent year no matter what and i think i'm pretty satisfied about it of course i wanted to go beat father and of course i wanted to reach the grand slam final but it's something i'm working on my game every single day i'm trying to improve. you know hopefully. four minutes and fifty one seconds the time john thomas dollars spent racing up the stairs of the tallest tower in the city of hall chiming in vietnam. sixth floor financial time or was it then you for the inaugural photo run the twenty seven year old took the lead straight away and showed his experience and skill as a quick wit what's caught between himself and his nearest rival in the months. when it climbed to six seconds faster than the runner up and

running is not over in raleigh as you can read in the lobby one of your own then. the only. one which you conveniently ignored in the distance from the it's really. unfair if you can see from. your very. busy because. it's not like you're on the timeline i think you'd be different if you were. in for more than a very very small. in the women's event there was violence in ability of. top all as she was the first to cross the line in six minutes and nineteen seconds minutes a minute of new zealand finished fifteen seconds behind her both filleted and gold receive the winning check of fifty hundred dollars for their victory. ok that's all for me and this is for now thanks for watching us comply. so.

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